Chemical compositions of the essential oils of endemic wild <i>Origanum majorana</i> var. <i>tenuifolium</i> collected from three different locations during flowering and post-flowering phases in North Cyprus, Multivariate Statistical Analyses


Hanoglu A., Yigit Hanoglu D., DEMİRCİ B., Kirci D., Alkas F. B., Yavuz D. O., ...More

JOURNAL OF ESSENTIAL OIL BEARING PLANTS, no.2, pp.525-536, 2024 (SCI-Expanded) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Publication Date: 2024
  • Doi Number: 10.1080/0972060x.2024.2330551
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF ESSENTIAL OIL BEARING PLANTS
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Analytical Abstracts, CAB Abstracts, Veterinary Science Database
  • Page Numbers: pp.525-536
  • Anadolu University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Wild growing Origanum majorana L. var. tenuifolium Weston was collected from three different locations (Om1: Avtepe, Om2: Alevkayasi, Om3: Kozankoy) in North Cyprus. The essential oils were hydrodistilled and chemical composition analyses were simultaneously performed by GC-FID and GC-MS. The average yields of essential oils were 5.46-8.14%. Major compounds of flowering Om1 oil were cis-sabinene hydrate (45.0%) and terpinen-4-ol (11.1%) while those of Om3 (Kozankoy) oil were cis-sabinene hydrate (33.3%), terpinen-4-ol (12.3%) and alpha-terpineol (11.5%). In the post-flowering stage, the major compounds for Om1 and Om3, respectively, were cis-sabinene hydrate (16.7% and 18.8%), terpinen-4-ol (18.1% and 14.5%) and alpha-terpineol (23.9% and 20.0%). However, the main compound of the essential oils of the flowering and post-flowering oil of Om2 was alpha-terpineol (76.9% and 51.6%). Statistical Principal Component (PCA) and Hierarchical Cluster Analyses (HCA) tools demonstrated the composition variations of the essential oils at different times and locations. Om1 and Om3 (HCA similarity level: 98.98%) were similar while Om2 (HCA similarity level: 46.32%) was discordant.